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Even if the water tastes pure and delicious, you cannot enjoy it as much as you should. | The water might be good but you won't fully enjoy it. | entailment |
Tripp has spent 26 years in this cocoon, which will enable her to retire on a handsome pension, based on the average of her three highest consecutive years of pay. | Tripp's pension is based on her highest five consecutive years of pay. | contradiction |
Furthermore she wrote, scathingly, about class, and Americans have never liked to hear about class. | The woman was justified in her beliefs as it pertained to class. | neutral |
At bequest time, the strategic gift motive would evaporate, and the favored child would be favored no longer. | No one likes the favored kid anymore. | neutral |
Therapeutic laws become props for rhetoric that might be called demagoguery, except that it disgraces the memories of Joe McCarthy and Huey Long and the ambitions of Pat Buchanan to call Clinton a demagogue. | Calling Clinton a demagogue can only bring respect and reflect favorably on other people. | contradiction |
The computer is currently composing a new Mahler I'm so tired of the 10 symphonies, Cope said. | Cope is speaking. | entailment |
They're interested in the clash of personalities. | There is a debate between two people of different political parties. | neutral |
Betsy's logical mind and wonderful laugh, among other gifts, made it all happen (well, most of the time). | The author is personally close with Betsy. | neutral |
We learn, for example, that on his field trips with Lady Gregory, Yeats had difficulty understanding the thick Irish accent of the peasants. | Yeats had trouble understanding accents. | entailment |
He telegraphs the ending--you know the Limey will somehow be at the root of his daughter's death--but it's still an emotional wow. | The Limey is not the only one responsible. | neutral |
[Monica] made him feel good about himself. | Monica made him feel bad about himself. | contradiction |
There is little doubt about the pro-choice media's unquestioning acceptance of the faulty pro-choice statistics. | There is little doubt about the pro-life media's unquestioning acceptance of the faulty pro-life statistics. | neutral |
It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money. | AOL did not provide internet service. | contradiction |
With crime down and the economy up, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is finally able to turn to the really big issues--like keeping the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll in a Manhattan museum against the claims of a member of the British Parliament that it belongs back in England. | With the economy down, crime remains incredibly high in New York City. | contradiction |
I don't know how many times I have gone to use the handicapped stall and there's always someone in it. | The handicapped stall is always out of order. | contradiction |
Also, the semiannual Home Design supplement insists that simplicity--incredibly expensive simplicity, that is--is chic. | The simplicity championed by the supplement was both functional and low cost. | contradiction |
The already-outdated cover story wonders if NATO's deal with Yugoslavia will hold. | NATO refuses to deal with Yugoslavia. | contradiction |
So, what kind of Jew am I after 60 years of consciousness-raising? | I have been alive for over 59 years. | entailment |
(Remember, they weren't Time Warner fans prior to the AOL deal.) | They did not like Time Warner until after the AOL deal. | entailment |
To aid the larger lexicographical enterprise, I'm interested in collecting samples of references to yadda yadda yadda (or similarly imitative terms) in any communications media other than paper. | Samples of references to yadda yadda yadda in communications media is helpful to larger lexicographical enterprises. | entailment |
(I would bet that every survey of teens taken since Cain and Abel found that they named parents as their favorite role models.) | The survey was restricted to just teenagers. | neutral |
It's a big week for women's health at Newsweek , too. | Newsweek completely ignores women's health. | contradiction |
New studies show that 1) one in seven black men can't vote because of a felony conviction | The study later concludes that even convicted felons should have the right to vote. | neutral |
That's 2 percent of the $100 billion total spent on ads in all media. | Across all media, $100 billion was spent in ads. | entailment |
Of course not all shoddiness is local. | Shoddiness is not always confined to a specific place and can permeate over a larger area. | entailment |
A few of the more bearable Hotel Bill, Cash Inn, China Pattern, The John Wilkes Toll Booth, Sheets for Treats. | This author has decided not to list some of the worst puns. | entailment |
Of course, the extreme in men's dress is the dinner jacket. | The dinner jacket is not an extreme in men's dress. | contradiction |
Spark was in her prime when she wrote Memento Mori . As she draws closer to mortality (may it be many novels away!) | Spark is an author. | entailment |
In practice, they tend to make wild claims about the former and ignore the latter. | They ignore the former and make wild claims about the latter. | contradiction |
This makes it one of the few possible end runs around the meritocratic-credentialing complex, whereby standardized test scores determine future opportunities. | Standardized test scores do not impact the future. | contradiction |
Let's take video games as an example. | Video games is a great example. | neutral |
Economist Robert Barro decided to stay at Harvard rather than take Columbia's offer of a $300,000 salary and lavish perks. | Robert Barro has not been able to find employment at any American universities. | contradiction |
A self-appraisal (and remember, the entire purpose of a reference group is to serve as a yardstick for self-appraisal) would entail evaluating the richness of relationships and the satisfactions of accomplishments, rather than the cataloging of possessions. | Material goods are more important than relationships. | contradiction |
His writing is full of sentences that begin something like, As John Cage once asked me ... | He had a unique way of writing. | neutral |
But the supply-siders are quite right when they say that economies are not a zero-sum game. | The supply-siders are right when they say that economies are a zero-sum game. | contradiction |
In 1958, 4 percent of white Americans approved of interracial marriages. | Not a single person approved of interracial marriage during the entirety of the 1950s. | contradiction |
Go forth and cover culture and the arts. | No one would go on cover culture or art. | contradiction |
Except that the executive who was assigned the difficult task of dealing with the Shopping Avenger, one Jennifer Nemeth, did a provisionally satisfactory job of making the Shopping Avenger happy. | Shopping Avenger is an easy client to deal with. | contradiction |
Deseg students bused from the inner-city find class differences harder to bridge than racial ones. | Deseg students say that racial differences are the hardest to address with others. | contradiction |
Morris constantly describes his visitors as voters who are engaged in referenda through vote.com. | Morris has not heard of vote.com. | contradiction |
Music that conjures up a sense of suspended time and a still, suburban afterglow seems a perfect occasion for its debut. | This music playing is the perfect time for its debut. | entailment |
The larger bill would fortify the Border Patrol, facilitate deportations, and restrict the benefits available to illegal aliens; the detached bill would let states exclude children of illegal aliens from public schools. | If the larger bill were to be passed, it would prevent illegal aliens from receiving benefits. | entailment |
Our Today's Papers column will be posted Friday (but not Thanksgiving Day). | The column always runs on Thanksgiving Day. | contradiction |
Ad revenue increased but not enough to cover enormous new Recruiting new subscribers by direct mail, printing more magazines, and mailing more magazines are tremendously expensive operations. | Ad revenue has increased but not enough to provide all the new services subscribers get. | entailment |
News zooms in) for their Kenneth Starr cover stories. | Kenneth Starr is an unknown person. | contradiction |
Republicans like Gramm beat up the IRS and promise endless tax reductions while bringing home pork projects to their constituents. | Gramm is a Democrat. | contradiction |
Founding editor = permanent voice in growth of Wired ! Move forward together! | Wired! has experienced growth. | entailment |
IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was questioned by a congressional committee, said the IOC had solved the corruption problems. | Juan Antonio Samaranch's explanation was accepted. | neutral |
the tester meows as he drops the vermin on the developer's doorstep. | A cat dropped a vermin on the doorstep of a developer. | entailment |
After 15 years of almost uninterrupted superlative performance--which not even the Katzenberg and Ovitz contretemps could seriously slow down--it's almost impossible to remember how close Disney was to being dismantled in the early 1980s. | Disney is one of the most powerful companies now. | neutral |
Starr has said that leaking grand jury testimony before it's actually delivered doesn't count. | Starr believes grand jury testimony does not matter until it is delivered. | entailment |
Eszterhas is reminiscent of Playboy 's Hugh They share the same exaggerated sense of importance, the same pontificating humorlessness about their ridiculous jobs. | Hugh Hefner was not involved in the magazine business. | contradiction |
If Oprah's not safe, no one is. | No one is safe if even Oprah is in danger. | entailment |
If my dog is reading this, he'd better run now. | If the dog reads this, he should lay down. | contradiction |
Would it be better for the president, and the first lady too, for that matter, to be able to give their undivided attention to getting America across that bridge into the next millennium than it is to have them distracted by the Monica affair? | The president is leading the nation into the next millenium. | entailment |
Figgis' camera is probing and alive, so that even when his meanings are laughable, his images remain allusive and mysterious. | Figgis' camera always manages to get allusive and mysterious photographs. | entailment |
I do know that I could see every plot turn dragging its limp, maggoty carcass across the desert from miles away. | the plot sucked and never really seemed to get going. | entailment |
It is measured real GDP per worker --nothing more, nothing less. | The overall population is necessary to calculate the metric. | contradiction |
Though some faculty members feel McKinsey's involvement shames the academy, most think it's a healthy development for Harvard. | Some faculty members at Harvard are humiliated about McKinsey's participation at the academy. | entailment |
In any case, if I had actually been interested in buying the print, with the help of the Web, I would have been in a far better position to negotiate a favorable price. | I could negotiate a favorable price easily. | neutral |
The administration's spin is that demands and conditions are the opposite of negotiation. | The administration has given a certain spin to the situation. | entailment |
So all the money from the sales of the manufacturing operations, $3 billion, is going to a share buyback program, which is to say that instead of being used to create new wealth, it will simply be redistributed from the company to investors. | The sales came from the creation of new technology. | neutral |
Johnny, she's been a-pinin' fer you ever sence you enlisted, an' last night durin' the fight she mighty nigh went distracted. | Johnny enlisted for the Vietnam War. | neutral |
Would Shuger ever have Why did Irving Goldberg play 'Sol Bernstein'? | The author questions the motives as to why 'Sol Bernstein was played. | entailment |
The amount is small for Cramer but large for the editor of Slate . TheStreet.com competes, to some extent, with Slate 's sister MSN site MoneyCentral and even, to a lesser extent, with Slate itself. | Amounts can be judged differently relative to different people. | entailment |
As noted, lexicographers for obvious reasons have far more trouble gathering oral citations than written ones. | Lexicographers have an easier time gathering written citations than oral citations. | contradiction |
But it was the grass-roots opposition to KYC, sparked in part by the Libertarian Party, whose protest Web site steered 171,268 e-mail complaints from netizens to the FDIC, that elevated the subject to the national agenda. | The website steered one million e-mail complaints to the FDIC. | contradiction |
Need a good book store with a series of author appearances, maybe starting with Susan Faludi? | Author appearances are not important when looking for a good book store. | contradiction |
What makes Linux enthralling from a tech-head's point of view is that it is based on Unix standards that have been around for decades. | Linux is of no interest to tech-heads. | contradiction |
You can view him as the classic case of the doomed artist, his genius and self-destruction bound up together. | The artist is a genius even though he has self-destructive tendencies. | entailment |
If she wants to write a sketch of her pencil box, I for one will gladly read it. | The author is interested in the woman's sketches. | entailment |
Here's what Hatfield writes about what Eufaula told | Hatfield has never written anything. | contradiction |
Flytrap also bears some responsibility for Washington's paralysis. | Flytrap bears no responsibility for Washington's paralysis. | contradiction |
Not all the time-wasters in the Pentagon are civilians. | Civilians are 100 percent efficient with their time at the Pentagon. | contradiction |
They were men without color, literally wearing gray and beige and brown. | Some people considered beige as a colorful color. | neutral |
The shotgun-marriage rate itself declined only gradually, but that is not surprising. | The shotgun marriage rate increased. | contradiction |
While four other witnesses criticized the duplicity of pro-drug forces and the naivete of the voters, Romley bluntly identified the central choices facing law go after doctors, federalize marijuana enforcement, go to court, and get a strategy. | Romley gave a simple explanation for what law enforcement is faced with regarding drug laws, despite criticisms from others. | entailment |
People are judged and, in turn, judge others by how they look. | Humans don't make judgements of each others. | contradiction |
It is also a comfort if the message comes from a total stranger, as long as the message is for you specifically and personally and not for a name on a mailing list. | The message is about a product promotion. | neutral |
In this situation, Johnson's impeachment looms as the operative a case of men who despised and battled their president--perhaps with good reason--but whose zeal in pursuing flimsy impeachment charges turned the judgment of history against them. | Johnson's impeachment process has disparaged future impeachment attempts. | neutral |
When you buy something online or fill out a warranty card, there's often a little box at the Check here if you wish to receive announcements about our new products and services that may delight and amuse you. | You can purchase items online. | entailment |
It will probably have no effect on future elections or public policy. | It will a useless effect towards future elections. | neutral |
In this group, it's common for moms to march into school at the beginning of the year and obtain several months' worth of assignments in advance so their children can get a head start. | This group of mothers often get assignments months in advance for their children. | entailment |
Unlike his cold-eyed assistants, he preferred to visit the battlefield after the corpses had been cleared away. | No one died on the battlefield. | contradiction |
Privatization means allowing individuals to invest for themselves all or part of what they and their employers put into Social Security. | Privatization allows people to choose how to invest their Social Security money. | entailment |
That's why he resisted the temptation to bomb Iraq Nov. 14, when the political case for it was open and shut, but the moral case was dubious. | The moral case to bomb Iraq was open and shut but the political case was dubious. | contradiction |
Such self-referential questions can be pointless and irritating, and books that dwell on them generally belong in a category that one friend of mine calls art about art supplies. | Dwelling on such self-referential questions is always very meaningful and calming. | contradiction |
Linux found my various devices, such as my mouse and graphics card. | The devices were found by the Linux operating system. | entailment |
Maybe we shouldn't save every premature baby regardless of the cost. | The author believes that cost is a factor when determining if premature babies should be saved. | entailment |
Some analysts think Senate Republicans alienated conservative voters by giving up on tax cuts and caving in to Clinton in the budget negotiations. | Republicans faired much worse during the next elections because they gave up on the tax cuts. | neutral |
Newsweek berates NATO for its obfuscation of civilian casualties. | NATO refuses to make any public comments on the matter. | neutral |
We're prejudging this thing [when we say] it doesn't meet the standard of the high crimes and misdemeanors. | Standards exist when it comes to determining high crimes and misdemeanors. | entailment |
I teach at a school with many poor whites and Latinos, many of whom can't afford home computers or did not learn how to use them in high school. | It's harder to learn computers past high school. | neutral |
Later in the piece, Brill writes that Schmidt and another reporter declined all comment on their sources. | Schmidt wasn't completely forthcoming according to Brill. | entailment |
For example, I've heard many agents complain of having to revoke the parole of guys who failed a drug test but who were not, in the agent's best judgment, doing anything more than getting high. | Agents have terminated parole due to failed drug tests. | entailment |
With the glorious exception of the St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V , there is nothing more demoralizing than an inspirational address. | Henry the Fifth gave a speech for St. Crispin's day. | entailment |
A weaker version of Chinook had previously lost to the legendary Marion Tinsley, a retired university math teacher considered the greatest checkers player of all time, who had to withdraw from a 1994 rematch because of the pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him. | Chinook beat Marion Tinsley at checkers every time. | contradiction |
The trend toward interpretive installation, aimed at broadening art's appeal by expanding public understanding, paralleled the transformation of museum-going from serious cultural pursuit to highbrow entertainment. | All of the various types of artistic endeavors are equal in their artistic value. | neutral |
Then his pathetic self-loathing might have been exorcised. | The author is speaking positively about the individual. | contradiction |
Please tell Do you see an end to human suffering? | Human suffering doesn't exist and is just lies minority groups make up to try and get recognition. | contradiction |
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